19.442 relational database and TEI

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   [1] From: "Da Rold, Dr. O." <odr1_at_leicester.ac.uk> (108)
         Subject: RE: 19.436 relational database and TEI

   [2] From: Neven Jovanovic
<neven.jovanovic_at_ffzg.hr> (12)
         Subject: Re: 19.436 relational database and TEI

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         Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 07:33:55 +0000
         From: "Da Rold, Dr. O." <odr1_at_leicester.ac.uk>
         Subject: RE: 19.436 relational database and TEI

Patrick,

Many thanks for this information. We are not looking into publishing
complete editions of texts, and thus a relational database seems the
best choice. However, our level of description is extremely detailed
down to each individual letter of each scribal hand. We are aiming to
publish our descriptive documentation on the web site before Christmas,
hoping for feed back.

We will have circa 50 tables, roughly 400 fields; I am still planning
the database, trying to get relationships right. We won't publish full
folios, but we will be using part of images to elucidate scribal stints.

It is just so different to think relational rather than hierarchical.
I'll certainly take up your advice with our Computer guys.

Many thanks again,

Orietta

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         Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 07:40:47 +0000
         From: Neven Jovanovic <neven.jovanovic_at_ffzg.hr>
         Subject: Re: 19.436 relational database and TEI

You probably know it better than I do, but there is an article in Literary
& Linguistic Computing that seems to deal with something similar:

James Bradley, "Documents and Data: Modelling Materials for Humanities
Research in XML and Relational Databases"

http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/1/133

Just happy that my university is subscribed to Lit Ling C again,

Neven

Neven Jovanovic
Department of Classical Philology
University of Zagreb
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Zagreb, Croatia
Received on Fri Nov 25 2005 - 03:08:31 EST